Doing Your Part....

1. Act Now. Adopt as many eco-friendly lifestyle choices as you can and make them habits.
2. Be a vegan once a week! (No animal products.) Bring a cloth bag to do all your shopping.  But not just for groceries,
   even on your trips to the mall.
3. Car-pool!
4. Don’t run the water when brushing your teeth. You will save as much as 3 gallons every time.
5. Engage in an environmental activity like school or neighbourhood beautification or tree-planting.  Educate your friends on how individual actions can have an exponential impact.
6. Find an unusual insect in your garden.Fewer than 10% of the world’s described species have been assessed to determine their conservation status.  Form a group of colleagues to oversee the greening of the neighbourhood or workplace with recycling, car-pooling, etc.
7. Grow an organic garden. Give memberships to an environmental organization or seedlings as birthday gifts.
8. Host a clean-up session in your neighbourhood.Have a vegan dinner party to introduce your friends to vegan menu options.
9. Identify the nature that surrounds you.Take note of the beautiful plants and animals that you may not always appreciate.
10. Join a local environmental or conservation group. You can team up with those around you and make a real difference for your community. Jog outside and save the energy you would have used on a treadmill!
11. Kick the habit!
12. Leave a smaller carbon footprint. Learn more about conserving fossil fuels and put tips into practice.
13. Mobilize your networks!Use your Facebook, Twitter, text, email, phone, etc to send out conservation tips.
14. Notify service providers when resources are being wasted.Street light on all day?  Make a call.  Broken water pipe in the street?  Make that call!
15. Optimize the use of your washing machine. Use the cold water option and significantly save energy and reduce your carbon emissions.
16. Power down!The International Energy Agency estimates that standby mode could be causing a full 1 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
17. Quantify how much money you could save if you turned off unused appliances or lights in your home.
18. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
19. Sacrifice something small each month. Eat local fruit instead of the imported fruit; do without steak; car-pool with co-workers.
20. Think about your daily routine.Turn off your lights when leaving a room.  Just by making a few small changes you could cut your daily emissionsby more than 60 percent.
21. Use your common sense!Understand your options.  Learn about the small ways you can make a positive impact on the environment.
22. Visit websites that give updates on energy saving technology so that you can purchase wisely.
23. Walk whenever possible.It’s a great way to exercise and save energy.
24. You can make the difference! Tell all your friends about the green tips you find.  Communication is the key to saving the environment.
25. Zap those who are not green-aware by bombarding them with literature on the facts.Let them know that saving the environment is everybody’s business!
26. Get more tips on how to go green in your own daily life in the SUMMER/FALL issue